Incorporating equity and justice concerns in regulation

IF 3.2 2区 社会学 Q1 LAW
Caroline Cecot, Robert W. Hahn
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Abstract

US regulatory agencies have been encouraged to consider the equity and distributional impacts of regulations for decades. This paper examines the extent to which such analysis is done and provides recommendations for improving it. We analyze 189 regulatory impact analyses (RIAs) that monetize at least some benefits and costs prepared by a variety of agencies from October 2003 to January 2021. We find that only two RIAs calculated the net benefits of a policy for a specific demographic group. Furthermore, only 21% of RIAs calculate some benefits by group (typically for demographic groups) and only 20% calculate some costs by group (typically for industry groups such as small entities). Overall, the differences between presidential administrations are relatively small compared to the differences between agencies in their performance using our measures of distributional analysis. We then evaluate a sample of 23 analyses related to environmental justice (EJ) prepared by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) between January 2010 and January 2022. The EJ analyses frequently identify disproportionate exposures to pollutants for a variety of groups and discuss the effects of proposed regulations on these exposures, but they rarely consider the distribution of costs and less than half consider any alternatives. To date, virtually no agency prepares a distributional analysis that could help regulators evaluate whether a proposed regulation, on net, advantages or disadvantages a particular group and whether an alternative could generate a preferred distributional outcome.
将公平正义纳入监管
几十年来,美国监管机构一直被鼓励考虑监管的公平和分配影响。本文考察了这种分析的程度,并提出了改进它的建议。我们分析了189个监管影响分析(ria),这些分析将2003年10月至2021年1月期间各种机构准备的至少一些收益和成本货币化。我们发现只有两个ria计算了政策对特定人口群体的净收益。此外,只有21%的ria按群体计算一些收益(通常是针对人口群体),只有20%的ria按群体计算一些成本(通常是针对小型实体等工业群体)。总体而言,与使用我们的分布分析方法的机构之间的表现差异相比,总统政府之间的差异相对较小。然后,我们评估了环境保护署(EPA)在2010年1月至2022年1月期间准备的23项与环境正义(EJ)相关的分析样本。《经济学人》的分析经常指出不同群体接触污染物的不成比例,并讨论拟议法规对这些接触的影响,但他们很少考虑成本的分配,只有不到一半的人考虑任何替代方案。迄今为止,几乎没有一个机构准备了一份分配分析,以帮助监管机构评估拟议的监管措施总体上对特定群体是有利还是不利,以及替代方案是否能产生更理想的分配结果。
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CiteScore
7.80
自引率
10.00%
发文量
57
期刊介绍: Regulation & Governance serves as the leading platform for the study of regulation and governance by political scientists, lawyers, sociologists, historians, criminologists, psychologists, anthropologists, economists and others. Research on regulation and governance, once fragmented across various disciplines and subject areas, has emerged at the cutting edge of paradigmatic change in the social sciences. Through the peer-reviewed journal Regulation & Governance, we seek to advance discussions between various disciplines about regulation and governance, promote the development of new theoretical and empirical understanding, and serve the growing needs of practitioners for a useful academic reference.
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